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PsycEXTRA
PsycEXTRA is a new APA database covering the gray literature of psychology. Part of the database is full text, part bibliographic and all records include citations with abstracts and the same detailed indexing used in PsycINFO and PsycArticles. Coverage consists primarily of material written for professionals in the field but disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. This includes publications issued by private research institutes, corporations, government and military agencies, scientific societies, health organizations, and more. Document types include newsletters, magazines, consumer brochures, newspapers, conference papers, curricula, grant information, and more. The database will launch this spring with an initial size of 60,000 records and will be available on an annual site-license basis from APA and EBSCO.

PsycBOOKS
PsycBOOKS is a new full-text database of APA published books, both in-print and out-of-print, plus classic books in psychology not published by APA. Each record of the database represents a chapter in PDF format and will include the same detailed indexing as PsycINFO and PsycArticles. The most recent books are available in HTML format. PsycBOOKS will launch this spring with an initial 5,000 records representing 410 in-press books, 100 out-of-print books, and 50 classics in psychology. Approximately 1,500 articles from APA's Encyclopedia of Psychology will also be included. APA will maintain a digital archive of all database records and will convert that archive as technology changes. Subscribers retain access rights to all records for the years of their paid subscriptions. Access through APA, several vendors, and through customer direct loading is available.

PsycArticles
PsycArticles includes the full text of 50+ journals published by APA (back to 1985), the Canadian Psychological Assn, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. More journals are added each year, including retrospective issues. Articles are in both PDF and HTML and all text in the articles and references is searchable. Articles are available about 9 days after the print journal is mailed. PsycArticles is available from APA, CSA, EBSCO, Elsevier, Hogrefe & Huber, NISC, OCLC, Ovid/SilverPlatter, and ProQuest. Subscribers have access rights to the journal content published in the years of their paid subscriptions.

PsycINFO
The entire bibliographic database will be reloaded June 2004 to include the following:

New features:

  • Updated Thesaurus utility with over 200 new terms
  • New index terms "mapped back" to older records in the database
  • Some tests names "mapped back" to older records in the database
  • Inclusion of both published and unpublished test names in the Test & Measures field
  • More retrospective cited references

New fields:

  • Historical Notes Field: Captures changes in the use of terms from their introduction into the Thesaurus vocabulary to the present

Changes to data:

  • Key Concept Field changed to Key Words Field
  • Descriptor Field changed to Index Term Field
  • Supplemental Data field changed to Supplemental Material Field
  • Systematic and global corrections to current database records
  • Separate tagged data for several data elements in cited references

Last updated March 25, 2004.